[OpenAFS-devel] automatically spawning afsd from kernelspace?

[Adam Megacz]

Is there any reason (other than that nobody's done it yet) that
libafs.ko couldn't spawn afsd itself when needed (ie when /afs gets
mounted)?

This would (IMHO) eliminate the need for a lot of
distribution-specific /etc/init.d stuff.  Default afsd options could
be compiled into the kernel and overridden with bootprompt parameters
or "echo [options] > /proc/afs/afsd_options".  And manually invoking
afsd (as root) would kill the old afsd before starting the new one (so
that you have a way of restarting afsd).

?

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